there was one scene that we did 16 takes of, and it's when we're back at the parking garage in the city. and we'd come to collect the car and would come around -- brrr! -- fine. talk, talk, pay the guy. go to get in the car, wouldn't start. it just had really cheesy electrical systems. >> like any mechanical thing in a movie, there's constant things breaking down. >> there were big cheers when that thing went screaming out the window into the ravine. people were happy to see it die. [ laughs ] >> narrator: that death was not simple to stage. >> the climactic scene where cameron kicks the car off the jacks -- it's a big sequence. it was a sequence that was both a dramatic sequence, a dialogue sequence, and an action sequence, because cameron had to go through this whole epiphany about who he was. >> narrator: hughes knew it was a key scene and wanted it to be perfect. >> so, that sequence was scheduled for three days, and it took six days. >> he was really just like, "you got to remember." 'cause, you know, he was going over it very carefully numerous times about what a bastard my father